Allelic variation in the DQ subregion of the canine major histocompatibility complex: I. DQA

Divergent Patterns of Variation in Major Histocompatibility Complex Class Ii Alleles Among Antarctic Phocid Pinnipeds

“…3). Alignment of the most common alleles from each species with an allele from the southern elephant seal and with published data for California seal lions (Bowen et al 2002), domestic dogs (Sarmiento et al 1992), and humans confirms the assignment of the alleles from Antarctic pack-ice seals to DQa (Figs. 4 and 5).…”

A review of immunologic diseases of the dog

“…DLA-88 has at least 40 alleles, while the other class I loci have fewer than 12 alleles. Within the dog MHC class II, region, clear homologues have been identified for human DRA, DRB, DQA, and DQB (Kennedy et al, 1998a, b;Polvi et al, 1997;Sarmiento et al, 1990Sarmiento et al, , 1992Sarmiento et al, , 1993Wagner et al, 1996aWagner et al, , b, 1998. There are two genes in the DQ region, DQA1 and DQB1, and one gene in the DR region, DRB1.…”

Identification of further DLA‐DRB1 and DQA1 alleles in the dog

“…So far, fewer DLA‐DQA1 sequences have been identified, and it is possible that it is less polymorphic than the DRB1 locus. Ten DQA1 sequences have been published ( Sarmiento et al ., 1992 ; Wagner et al ., 1996a ; Polvi et al ., 1997 ). A summary of all known DQA1 alleles has been reported ( Kennedy et al ., 1999a ).…”